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    Absent boss gets backlash for demanding fully remote team to come into the office "5 days a week (8 AM - 5 PM)"

    This employee's manager spends most of his working hours playing golf on the company's dime, while at the same time enforcing strict new in-person work policies. Make it make sense!

    Ah yes, another employer has made it his mission to put a policy in place that he himself cannot even follow. We understand that several generations of workers were socialized into thinking that in-person work was the only proper way to get things done professionally. 

    Despite plentiful evidence to the contrary, not to mention various world events that had forced the occasional pivot to remote work, some folks even still refuse to admit that there are alternative ways to approach work.

    This manager turned out to be one of those stubborn individuals, but the irony was that he was well-known for being absent during the work week. As you can imagine, it was laughable to watch this dude even try to enforce this new policy.

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    • I want to make him miserable during working hours

      I work in an office space where the traffic is unbearable no matter what the time is, think peak traffic New York. My team and I worked from home since 2020 and we have always been productive, never had silly excuses for not coming to work,
      via NightmareUC
    • we were barely on any leave or took sick leave and we were even happy having our lunch at our desks as were home anyway. A
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    • few months back we were asked to return to the office, just 3 times a week and we can leave early(2pm) with the guarantee we will log on again when we get home, we were okay with this.
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    • Recently the boss demanded everyone back....5 days a week, full working hours (8AM-5PM), it was fine with the sales team as they make commission and the commission structure is very nice
      via NightmareUC
    • to say the least. The sales team also have "ghost meetings" (scheduling meetings with clients. that don't exist to avoid going into the office). My team is on a fixed salary and the increases this year were absolutely pathetic
      via NightmareUC
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    • as well. Most of my team's travel time home is 2 hours home with the traffic, without traffic it will be 40 min-1 hour max. With petrol prices going up and about to go up again we requested that we only do traveling twice a week
      via NightmareUC
    • or we go back to 3 times a week but leave at 2pm missing peak traffic. He outright refused and was even offended we suggested this. Statements were made but
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    • the one that stood out was "You get paid enough, make a plan". To put it in perspective, this man makes 9 times my salary a month, and I am a manager...
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    • My question is, how can I be maliciously compliant in the office to the point where the boss doesn't want us to be in that much anymore but also to not get a warning or even fired. Keep in mind I am in South Africa so firing someone is not easy at all.
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    • For anyone that is gonna ask, no he barely comes to the office because he is playing golf on most days instead of working. We cant leave early because he can monitor our statuses on Teams.
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    • As the employee states clearly, there were incentives for other factions of the company (such as the sales team) to follow an in-person policy. For some of those team members, going to the office in person was even convenient for them. But most of the folks on the author's team live at least two hours outside of the city. Moreover, the work appeared to be quite solitary, with little need for in-person collaboration.

      Still, their stubborn boss refused to back down. Despite numerous attempts to negotiate with him, all to no avail, this employee decided that if he was going to have to make the laborious commute to the office, he was going to, at the very least, make life difficult for his employer.

      Our suggestion would be to figure out his golf schedule and intentionally set mandatory meetings during his usual tee time. Then, he'll either demonstrate just how negligent he is as a leader or he'll have to give up something precious to him, like the rest of the team.

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    • FrequentWay Leave your teams running on your phone as active. Then drive home early.
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    • Fearless-Truth-... Work to your contract. Any way some of you can carpool??
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    • NightmareUC OP. Unfortunately none of us stay near each other, 2 of my team members stay near each other atleast, they can definitely, but the rest of us are not close enough to each other. Contracts are only negotiable if the boss agrees and he declines any meeting discussion regarding asking for a raise or contract change.
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